toothless
adjective
lacking teeth.
toothlessly
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a word derived from
toothless.
Example Sentences
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This material is always kept toothlessly at the margins of the movie.
From The Verge ● Feb. 12, 2019
Congress defused the movement by passing the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, which pledged — toothlessly, it turned out — to eliminate annual federal deficits within six years.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
Pryor’s character, as originally written, is supposed to be toothlessly amused.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014
This sentence might seem toothlessly vague, but it’s a legal hand grenade—one that Alabama now seems poised to lob at the Supreme Court.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2014
The old woman, smiling toothlessly, began to hobble back through the villagers.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
